When Planning Involves A Vacation Or Dinner Out With Friends, We Are All Over It. Yet, often, when planning is about our death or our life as an elderly person, not so much. Unfortunately, when we fail to plan for when we cannot make our own decisions or when we die, our family suffers most.…
Learning estate planning is quite a bit different than learning to replace a spigot on You-Tube. With so much information available online today from learning home repair hacks and even publishing your own book, it is tempting to try to do this for yourself. Making an appointment to see an attorney is hardly at the…
People Are Living Much Longer Today & Collecting Social Security Longer Than In Previous Generations And in many cases, women outlive men. Those who are in their 60s can elect to receive their retirement benefits earlier or later. Each month, 10,000 Baby boomers are turning 65. For those who have diseases that are known to…
Divorce Is Never A Happy Subject The emotional impact on a family can take months or even years to heal. Another pain that many do not learn about until it is too late is the potentially dangerous effect of divorce on retirement plans and future problems. Folks over 50 who divorce often experience a loss…
Just When You Think You Have Learned Everything You Can From Your Parents, You Find That There Is Still More To Learn Except that this time it is about the aging process and retirement, not about growing up or raising kids. Regardless whether your parents’ retirement experience is one you want to emulate or one…
Guilt. When You Are A Parent, You Feel Guilty It’s just how it is. Regardless of what the issue is, you hovered over your kids, you worked too hard, you regret using child care, or you were too permissive, the fact is, because you are thinking about it means you ARE A great parent. What matters…
When It Comes To Retirement Advice Our Parents Are The Ones To Ask When we talk about retirement, most of us are still thinking about our parents’ retirement and how they did – or did not – plan properly for it. It’s no big stretch to think that our retirement will differ significantly from that…
Your kids have gone and you are looking ahead to a happy, retired life in a home that you want to reflect the way you live. Who Do You Call To Help You Redesign Your Home For Healthy Aging? Jeannette Knudsen Allied ASID and her Gilbert firm Design for a Lifespan LLC helps people create…
From Time To Time, We Will Answer Questions We Receive From Our Clients On Our Blog Naturally, if ONE person is pondering a topic relative to estate-planning, it is possible there are others out there wondering the same thing. Today’s Question Is: How Do We Handle Our Timeshare In Our Estate Planning? Timeshares are a…
Business owners are accustomed to having to handle issues that employees do not think of such as changes in tax laws and management plans for time away from the business. One topic that is relevant to both business owners AND employed people is estate planning but like with most things, the business owner has specific…